Obeying the desire of the Head of State to see him get involved in the campaign, Gabriel Attal will debate with the head of the RN list in the European elections, Jordan Bardella, on May 23.
Gabriel Attal has definitely put aside his reluctance to get involved in the European election campaign. The Prime Minister, who argued a few weeks ago that he was "head of government, not of the campaign", ended up giving in to the injunctions of his President of the Republic and complying with the request of his opponent, Jordan Bardella , to lend itself to a debate. The face to face will take place on Thursday May 23, announces Franceinfo.
Jordan Bardella and Gabriel Attal are not in their first match. They met several times during the presidential campaign between their two elders, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. At 28 and 35 years old respectively, the RN candidate and the Prime Minister will once again be the champions of their two camps, given the lead in the polls for the European elections.
But this time, the task will not be easy for Gabriel Attal: the Prime Minister is entrusted with the responsibility of saving the campaign of his head of list, Valérie Hayer, given far behind Jordan Bardella in all the polls. After a Bardella-Hayer face-to-face on May 2 which did not convince, it was up to Gabriel Attal to rub shoulders with this very good debater, who enjoys the status of arch-favorite in this election.
Emmanuel Macron left him little choice: it was the President of the Republic himself who convinced (not to say summoned) Gabriel Attal to play the game. “You have to go,” Macron wrote to his foal on Sunday April 28, during a tense exchange of messages, according to information from Le Parisien. “The president put a gun to his head,” adds an advisor to the Elysée.
“I hope that he gets as involved as possible in the campaign by holding debates and meetings,” Emmanuel Macron confirmed this weekend to the Tribune du Dimanche. Message received in Matignon. The confrontation with Jordan Bardella will take place on May 23 from 8:15 p.m. on France 2, in the show "L'Evénement" by Caroline Roux.
